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RFC 1813 - 6.2.0 Procedure 0: NULL - Do nothing

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### 6.2.0 Procedure 0: NULL - Do nothing

SYNOPSIS

            void NLMPROC4_NULL(void) = 0;

DESCRIPTION

  The NULL procedure does no work. It is made available in all RPC services to allow server response testing and timing.

IMPLEMENTATION

  It is important that this procedure do no work at all so that it can be used to measure the overhead of processing a service request. By convention, the NULL procedure should never require any authentication.

ERRORS

  It is possible that some server implementations may return RPC errors based on security and authentication requirements.

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RFC 1813 - 6.2.0 Procedure 0: NULL - Do nothing